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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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Indonesian palm oil producer Perkebunan Nusantara III (PTPN) is seeking consent from banks to delay payments on a dollar loan, given expectations of a hit to its business because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But bankers told GlobalCapital Asia this week that the state-owned company has enough cash to make the payments, with the syndicate team set to reject its deferral request. Pan Yue reports. -
CLOs with shorter reinvestment periods continue to dominate the primary market in the US, as managers shift to actively managed deals rather than static transactions that reopened the market in April.
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Nassau Private Credit, the CLO arm of Nassau Financial Group, announced that it has hired Vincent Chan as portfolio manager to focus on CLO investments.
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Synlab’s multi-part liability management exercise has ended up leaning more heavily on the bond market than on loans, with the new FRN leg boosted from €400m to €850m, more than compensating for limited take-up from lenders asked to switch into a longer dated loan. But it should be little surprise that the bond went better, as it paid investors an extra 75bp for a near-identical product.
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As a crucial middleman in the oil business, Trafigura has had to cope with concerns about the creditworthiness of some of its counterparts, and unprecedented volatility in the oil price that saw the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract turn negative at the end of April. Christophe Salmon, the company’s chief financial officer, explained how the company has coped with the crisis, and how its funding approach, based on deep banking relationships and a secured financing structure, proved resilient to the chaos around it.
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The coronavirus pandemic, in terms of the financial markets has had its winners as well as its losers. The loan market, after years of decline as borrowers sought better terms in bond markets, has shown its worth in times of trouble by being able to offer liquidity lifelines to companies left in dire need of the stuff when other markets could not provide it.
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